BRM 1103 PALEOGRAPHY AND ORAL HISTORY MANAGEMENT
Short Description
Course is intended to expose students to the history of writing, interpretation, recording and use
of oral sources.
Aim
To enable students understand elements of paleography and oral history and their bearing on
present day activities in organizations.
Learning Outcome
Students should be able to:
- Explain the concept of paleography and oral history
- interpret records
- collect oral history etc.
Intellectual, practical and transferable skills
Interpretation skills
Knowledge of recording oral history
Teaching and Learning Pattern
By use of lectures, visits to organizations, student-led group presentations, case studies and
demonstrations and self- directed research
Indicative Content
Introduction to paleography and oral history; history of writing; forms of written documents,
interpretation of records created; identification of records, reading and interpretation of medieval
documents. Introduction to oral skills; collection of oral literature; storage and management of
paleography, management of oral records by archives etc
Assessment Method
Continuous assessment shall be applied to generate marks for coursework. Tests, coursework
research questions, group work presentations will all constitute coursework marks (30 marks)
and final examinations (70).
For a student to be allowed to sit for final examinations in this course he or she should have
obtained at least 15 out of 30 marks. The pass mark for the course will be 50%.
Indicative sources
 Keeping Archives 2nd ed.; Judith Ellis (editor); Thorpe in Association with Australian
Society of Archivists Inc.: Port Melbourne (Australia): 1993.
 Keeping Archives 2nd ed.; Judith Ellis (Ed). 1993., Melbourne: Thorpe in Association with
Australian Society of Archivists Inc.
 Derolez, Albert. 2003. The Paleography of Gothic Manuscript Books, from the Twelfth to
the Early Sixteenth Century (Cambridge Studies in Paleography and Codicology 9).
Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press,
 Marie L. Radford and Pamela Nelson. 2008 (Ed) Academic library research: perspectives and
current trends. Chicago: Association of College and Research Libraries,.
 Sue Bradley (Ed). 2008. The British book trade: An oral history. London: British Library